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Oscar's star power featured in CineFocus Canada series (08 March, 2010)

Green Heroes Producer/Director with Ric O'Barry, star of The Cove

This year's star studded Academy Award ceremony honored The Cove, a documentary about Ric O'Barry and his 40 year crusade to halt the senseless dolphin slaughter in Japan. CineFocus Producer/Director Joan Prowse caught up with Ric O'Barry in Miami and interviewed him for the upcoming CineFocus series Green Heroes which launches Earth Day 2010 on the web channel greenheroes.tv and premiers on TVO this fall.

Another exciting moment of the evening was Best Supporting Actress being awarded to Mo'Nique for her role in Precious. Ten years ago, Joan interviewed Mo'Nique at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal for Lucky Breaks, the CineFocus series where she told the story of her big break into show business.

"When I got my own sitcom, The Parkers I actually had a talk show deal. They put my tape in and they said 'She's not a talk show host, she's a sitcom star and if she can act, she has her own show'. So they called me, I got there around 1 o'clock, we met for five minutes and he said 'Kid, if you can act, you've got yourself a show. If you can't, nice meeting you'. I said 'I can act. I can be 8 to 80, blind, purple or crazy. Whatever you need me to be, I'll be'. And that's how I got The Parkers".

CineFocus Canada has announced the season two premiere of their show Green Heroes™ on TVO Tuesday, June 11. Tonight, Green Heroes™ will kick off Season 2 with the full season line-up to come throughout the months of June and July, starting with “Biting in